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Podcast #029 - Amanita muscaria - The Fly Mushroom - An Interview with Wolfgang Bauer
May 03, 2009 10:51 PM PDT
Today we'll be discussing Amanita muscaria - the Fly-agaric mushroom. Why is Amanita so prevalent in folkloric, mythical and religious iconography? Why do Amanita mushrooms seem less ergonomic than other entheogens, and if they are less ergonomic, could they have played as prevalent a role in these ancient religions as modern scholars claim? Is there a special method or technique used to gain a fuller experience from the Amanita? My guest is German author Wolfgang Bauer, co-author and co-editor of Der Fliegenpilz - The Fly-Mushroom: Dream Cults, March Magic, Mythical Intoxication. Wolfgang Bauer, a German psychologist, who has studied optical illusions by Prof. Rausch at the J.W. Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt/ Main, is editor of Sergius Golowin’s classic treatise on witch herbs and magic mushrooms (Magie der verbotenen Märchen, Hamburg 1973), which became a cult-book in the Seventies and which was secretly copied in the then communistic eastern part of Germany and distributed in the hippie-underground there. Wolfgang Bauer is co-editor of integration - journal for mind-moving plants and culture, editor and co-author of Der Fliegenpilz - Traumkult, Märchenzauber, Mythenrausch (Aarau 2000). His collection of objects relating to the fly-agaric has been exhibited by the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum (Hagen) several times in Museums in Europe. http://www.amazon.de/Fliegenpilz-Wolfgang-Bauer/dp/3855026645
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Podcast SummaryGnostic Media Research & Publishing's podcast with host Jan Irvin.A show that takes you far beyond the commonly understood concepts of religious practice, history, philosophy, the ancient mysteries, and politics, into the heart of cognizance itself. My focus is to bring together the leading independent and academic scholars from their respective fields of study to discuss shamanism, entheogens / psychedelics, religion, fertility cults, archaeoastronomy, direct religious experience, politics, and much more. My hope is that by providing a forum where both academic and independent scholars can present their ideas and research in a complete format, I will help to facilitate further understanding in these related fields - not only for the listening audience, but also for the researchers and everyone involved. Here the word 'gnostic' pertains to knowledge, and not necessarily dogmatic "Gnostic" teachings. The word gnostic has it's origins in the word 'knowledge' or to know [Greek gnosis, knowledge, from gignoskein, to know]. This is a one of a kind show, so sit back and relax as I take you on journey through time to deepest recesses of your mind. Jan Irvin of GnosticMedia.com is an independent researcher, author and lecturer in ancient and modern religious practices. He's the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity; A critical re-evaluation of the schism between John M. Allegro and R. Gordon Wasson over the theory on the entheogenic origins of Christianity presented in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, © 2008. For more information, please see TheHolyMushroom.com  Jan is the co-author of Astrotheology & Shamanism: Christianity's Pagan Roots, © 2006/2009, and co-producer of The Pharmacratic Inquisition DVD, 2007, with Andrew Rutajit. See www.gnosticmedia.com and Pharmacratic-Inquisition.com   He is the publisher of the upcoming 40th anniversary edition of John Marco Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross and is also the curator of the official John Allegro website and has contributed much to the re-examination of many of Allegro’s theories. See JohnAllegro.org   Stumble It!
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